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TO HIS EXCELLENCY ABRAHAM LmCOLN : 

Sir: — 

At a meeting recently convened at the city of Chicago, 
composed of citizens of said city and various portions of Northern 
Illinois, called for the purpose of inquiring into the matter of 
alleged impositions and false representations in obtaining re- 
cruits for what is called the "Marine Artillery," the undersigned 
were appointed a committee on behalf of said meeting to investi- 
gate the matters aforesaid and to apply to the proper authorities 
for such redress or relief in the premises as the nature of the 
case may seem to demand. Said committee find in their inves- 
tigation that during the early part of the present year, one James 
Hyslop appeared in the city of Chicago, dressed in the uniform 
of an officer of the United States Navy, opened a recruiting 
office and caused large handbills to be posted up throughout the 
city, and circulated through the country, headed " Burnside's 
Expedition," and calling for " Seamen, Boatmen, Ordinary Sea- 
men and Riflemen for the Naval expedition under W. A. Howard, 
then fitting out in New York." Said handbills set forth that the 
pay would be the same as the Navy, with the addition of a 
complete outfit, and a "LAND WARRANT!" And $100 
Bounty at the expiration of the term of service, three years or 
the war. Also Pensions and Prize Money : that the clothing 
for Marine Artillery would be 1 Long Pea Jacket, 1 Blue Cloth 
Pea Jacket, 2 pairs Duck Trousers, 1 Black Silk Handkerchief, 
4 pairs Long Stockings, 1 pair Blue Cloth Trousers, 1 pair Blue 
Satinett Trousers, 1 pair Boots, 1 pair Shoes, 1 Blue Cap, 2 pairs 
Drawers, 2 Flannel Shirts, 2 Linen Frocks, 2 Blankets, 1 Mat- 
tress, 1 Glazed Hat. The name of J.ames Hyslop was affixed to 
said hand bills with titles as follows : " CAPT. JAMES HY- 
SLOP, Recruiting Officer." 

Advertisements, the same as the above, were inserted in most 
if not all of the daily newspapers published in the city of Chicago, 
and were continued in said papers for several months. 



During tho months of July and August last past, volunteers 
were being solicited by a largo number of persons under author- 
ity of tlic Governor of Illinois, for various regiments of Infantry, 
Artillery and Cavalry. Men were daily arriving from various 
portions of the State with the intention of enlisting in some of 
these regiments ; but on seeing these handbills calling for re- 
cruits for the Marine Artillery, and the extraordinary induce- 
ments held out of pay, the same as the Navy, a land warrant, 
in addition to the bounty of $100, and pensions and prize money, 
also a complete outfit in addition to a full list of Navv clothing, 
and the inducement of the advantages of good quarters on a 
boat instead of the uncertainty of camp life, large numbers of 
these men were led to abandon their original purpose and pro- 
ceeded to the recruiting office of tlie said James Ilyslop with 
the design of joining liis " Marine Artillery." Said liyslop 
would assure them that the statements contained in his handbills 
and advertisements were strictly correct, that the pay in the 
Navy was eighteen dollars per month, which was the amount 
paid in the said Marine Artillery ; that some of the men enlisted 
by him in said service, had obtained several hundred dollars 
prize money, which they had sent home to their friends ; that the 
service was strictly United States Naval service. 

He would then contrast the difference between the land or 
Army and the Naval service, showing that in the latter they 
could possess all the advantages of the army in respect to bounty 
and pensions, with the additional advantages of belter pay, a 
" Land Warrant," &c., as before recited, dwelling largely upon 
the prcferablcness of a home on board of a boat as contrasted 
with the increased hardships they would have to endure if they 
enlisted in the Army or land service. He kept in his office, 
and would exhibit to them, a full suit of Navy clothing, such as 
he said they would receive and wear. 

When said Hyslop obtained recruits he would have them ex- 
amined by a surgeon and sworn by a magistrate into the " service 
as a soldier in the Navy of the United Slates of America;'' lie 
would transport them in squads to the city of New York, in- 
forming them tliat tlie g-itnboals belonging to tho expedition 
in question were there in waiting to receive them. 

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separately informed that it would bo necessary that they be re- 
examined by a surgeon and again sworn. If no questions were 
asked on this point, no explanations were given, they supposing 
the while, tlmt everything was right ; military rules requiring 
obedience to officers. Some of the more experienced and cau- 
tious men would inquire the reason for being again examined 
and sworn. They were told that this would entitle them to 
fifty dollars from New York in addition to the amount they 
would receive from the United States. 

Papers would then be brought to the men by persons claiming to 
be commissioned oflficers and wearing the uniform of the Navy, for 
them to sign ; these papers the men were not permitted to read. 
When they insisted upon reading before signing, they were told 
by these men claiming to be ofiicers, that the order was that 
they should not read them. If they refused to sign them without 
reading, they were threatened with various modes of punishment, 
according to the supposed character and intelligence or firmness 
of the individual, such as being put in irons, until they consented 
to obey the order, and instances are given where men were ac- 
tually imprisoned for presuming to read some of these papers. 

It is stated that the men were compelled in this way to sign 
some four different papers pertaining to their enlistment, being 
wholly ignorant of their contents, and they do not know at this 
time what they have signed or sworn to. 

"When the fifty dollars extra, said to come from New York, 
was paid to the men, in numerous instances, the sum of four 
dollars or more was deducted and retained for the benefit of 
some person pointed out or referred to, claiming to be an officer, 
stating that he had been at extra trouble and expense in pro- 
curing the payment of this money ; it appears that in cases 
where men were re-examined and sworn as aforesaid, without 
calling for an explanation, this extra fifty dollars was not paid 
to them or the matter in any way intimated. 

After these preliminary steps were completed, the men were 
conveyed from time to time in transport steamers to Newbern, N. 
Carolina: from thence they have generally been transferred to 
Roanoke Island, and organized as far as they have been organ- 
ized at all, as infantry, and performing the duties of such. 
A largo portion of them aro at present at a place called Camp 



Reno, on said Roanoke Island. It appears that the men have 
been kept in such utter ignorance of their condition, that they 
do not know the number of their regiment, if indeed it has one, 
and they arc much in doubt as to who their officers are, or 
who has really the right to command them. 

They are becoming sadly demoralized from disappointment 
and the manner in which they have been treated, and desertions 
are constantly occurring. They are but poorly supplied with 
clothing ; many even yet wearing citizen's clothes, no uniform 
having been furnished ; while others, instead of being supplied 
with the kind exhibited by Ilyslop, in his office in Chicago, liave 
presented them the alternative of an infantry uniform, or irons 
and imprisonment. They are poorly supplied with food, many 
never having had full rations given them. 

Instead of receiving pay as the Navy, and prize money, tliose 
who have been paid at all, have received pay only as infantry ; 
if they protested agains receiving less than eighteen dollars per 
month, they were, in frequent instances, told to take that or 
nothing. 

Their sanitary condition is so sadly neglected, that sickness 
prevails to an alarming extent, and numbers of deaths occur 
daily. 

The men are often detailed in squads, on marauding expedi- 
tions, and ordered to plunder from peaceable and unoffending 
citizens in the neighborhood, who would otherwise be friendly 
to the Government — in short they seem to occupy the position 
of mere guerillas. 

The foregoing is a statement of the facts in this case, which 
the committee find to exist, as gathered from the affidavits and 
letters of numerous highly respectable citizens of Chicago and 
other portions of Illinois, and of persons who enlisted and 
served in the so-called "Marine Artillery," or were otherwise 
the victims of this glaring imposition. 

The committee have been aided in their investigation by nu- 
merous papers and documents, pertaining to tliis case, gene- 
rously forwarded them by Adjt. Gen. Fuller, of Illinois. 

From a careful investigation of the facts in the case, the 
committee are forced to the conclusion that this wliole affair was 
a scheme on the part of citizens of New York to aid in filling 



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the quota of that State, under the call of the President of the 
United States for volunteers, and by them probably caused to be 
credited to some particular ward, or district, thus exempting 
themselves from draft. To go beyond the limits of their own 
State and call for men to go as volunteers from that State as 
infantry, would be unavailing; so this scheme of calling for 
men for the United States Naval service was adopted, holding 
out the extraordinary inducements of pay at eighteen dollars 
per month, pensions, prize money, a land warrant, bounty of one 
hundred dollars, ^c. The testimony shows that upwards of one 
THOUSAND men were in this manner recruited at Chicago, who 
were citizens of Illinois, who are credited to New York, as 
New York volunteers. They now find that they have been im- 
posed upon in the fraudulent manner as herein set forth, and 
earnestly ask for suitable relief. 

The State of Illinois has cheerfully answered to every demand 
of the National Government in this the hour of its extreme 
peril. The blood of her sons has been poured out on every 
battle field in the rebel States, and thousands of homes have 
been rendered desolate from the casualties of war ; but we pray 
that the affliction of friends and families may not be increased 
through the merciless designs and deceptions of men seeking 
either pecuniary gain or to avoid burdens which the law of the 
country imposes. We trust that the State of Illinois, having 
promptly filled its own quota of troops, may not in this fraudu- 
lent manner be compelled to furnish men to other States whose 
citizens have declined to volunteer at the call of their country. 
Not a man, who enlisted in this so-called " Marine Artillery," 
from Illinois, but desired to enter the military service of the 
United States ; but with large numbers, leaving behind them, 
as they did, families and friends dependent upon them for 
support, the matter of the highest wages was one of necessity : 
but alas, how are they disappointed. Their pay is that only 
of the lowest grade in the military service. They are de- 
prived of the healthiness supposed to belong to the naval ser- 
vice, in which they contracted to serve, and are thrown on shore 
as landsmen, into one of the most unhealthy portions of the 
globe, there to perish and die piecemeal, not as soldiers, but 



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as dupes of ono of the most unblushing frauds that can bo con- 
ceived of, committed under the guise of oflicial authority. 

It is not asked that these men be discharged for the purpose 
merely of being released from the Army ; but we consider that 
in equity, at least, the representations and promises that were 
mado to them at the time of recruiting form a part of the con- 
tract, and are binding upon the Government ; and it is most res- 
pectfully asked that those men bo •at once either placed in such 
service, and at such pay, &c., as they engaged for, and that the 
State of Illinois bo allowed credit therefor, or that they be dis- 
charged and transported to their homes in Illinois, where every 
man, not disqualified will seek the earliest opportunity to enter 
the service as an Illinois volunteer. 

We are your most obedient servants, 

H. W. ZIMMERMAN,"^ 
BENJ. F. DAVISON, 
PLINY HAYWAED, )> Committee. 
V. REIFSNIDER, 
WM. TILLINGHAST,J 
Chicago, III., November 26, 1862. 



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ABSTEACT OF EVIDENCE. 



George Handy, of Kankakee county, State of Illinois, deposes that be 
is a justice of the peace in said county, and that on the 11th day of Au- 
gust, A. D. 1862, he swore into the Marine service of the United States of 
America, Eugene B. DeWitt, James H. Curran, Harmon Mead, George 
B. Wood, Alonzo Fenton, S. A. Rexford, C. Henry Cowles, Frederick 
Herscher, Newton G. Throop, Robert G. Plumley, A. B. Crundott, being 
residents of said county of Kankakee, the following being a true copy of the 
oath of said persons : 

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I, born in in the State of aged. . . . years, 

and by occupation a do hereby acknowledge to have volunteered 

this day of 186 . . , to service as a Soldier in the Navy of 

the United States of America, for the period of three years unless sooner 
discharged by proper authority ; do also agree to accept such bounty, pay, 
rations, and clothing as are, or may be established by law for volunteers. 
And I do solemnly swear, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the 
United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faith- 
fully against all their enemies or opposers whomsoever ; and that I will 
observe and obey the orders of the ]?resident of the United States, and 
the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and 
articles of war." 

William H. Van Epps, of Dixon, Lee County, State of Illinois, Pre- 
sident of the Illinois State Agricultural Society, deposes that, on or about 
the 12th day of August, a. d. 1862, he came to Chicago with his son 
William Henri Van Epps, not yet of full age, and twenty-six others, also 
of Lee County, to enlist in the Express Battery, then being organized in 
said city. On arriving in the City of Chicago the battery was found to 
be filled up. His son, with the others interested, were then induced by 
handbills, to visit the recruiting office of one James Ilyslop, who induced 
them to enlist, by promising that they should serve in the Navy of the 
United States ; that they should receive eighteen dollars per month, and 
those persons who did not draw rations of liquor would receive in lieu 
thereof one dollar and fifty cents additional pay per month, also bounties and 
prize money ; and they should choose for themselves whether to be artil- 
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lerij men or sharpshooters on board of naval vessels. Ilyslop had on at 
the time a naval cap, and naval devices upon his coat. They were also 
to receive a complete naval outfit of clothing. Thereupon fifteen of the 
pcr.sons above named enlisted. 

L. B. Young, of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, deposes that in the 
month of August, A. d. 18G2, Hyslop, just previous to his going to New 
York, told him as an inducement to enlist, that his recruits were to serve 
on gunboats as Marine Artillerymen ; to receive eighteen dollars per 
month, a bounty of one hundred dollars, two dollars as premium, and two 
month's pay, thirty-six dollars, in advance. Subsequently, on his return 
from New York, on being pressed, Hyslop admitted that he had means of 
mustering his recruits into the New York Volunteer service, but he did 
not wish the matter made public in Chicago. 

CnARLES P. Freeman, of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, deposes that 
under representations made by Hyslop, by large handbills posted up in the 
city of Chicago, and advertisements in most of the newspapers in Chicago, 
that he was recruiting for the Navy with pay, clothing and rations the same 
as in the naval service of the United States, together with one hundred 
dollars bounty, a land warrant of one hundred and sixty acres of land, and 
prize money, he, the said Hyslop, obtained from seven to nine hundred 
men in the State of Illinois who were taken to New York city, and there 
mustered into the service as New York State Volunteers of Infantry. He 
also deposes that no recruits could have been obtained by Hyslop had the 
facts been stated as they existed. 

WiLLiASi T. DeLuce, engineer at the Tremont House, in the city of 
Chicago, deposes that James Hyslop induced his brother, Otis H. DeLuce, 
to enlist in the so-called "Marine Artillery," in the month of August, a. d. 
18G2, under inducements set forth by large posters in conspicuous places 
in the city, and advertisements in the daily papers. The advertisements 
wore in the following words : 

" BURNSIDE'S EXPEDITION ! ! 

wanted immediately. 

For the 

MARINE ARTILLERY, 

Seamen, Boatmen, Ordinary Seamen, and Riflemen, for the Naval Ex- 
pedition under command of Col. W. A. HOWARD, 
now fitting out in New York. 
Pay the same as the Navy with the addition of a complete outfit free, 
and $100 bounty at the expiration of the term of service, three years or 
the war ; also pensions and prize money. 



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List of clothing for Marine Artillery : 
One Long Pea Jacket. 
One Blue Cloth Pea Jacket. 
Two pairs Duck Trowsers, 
One Black Silk Handkerchief. 
Four pair Long Stockings. 
One pair Blue Cloth Trowsers. 
One pair Blue Satinet Trowsers. 
One pair Shoes. 
One pair Boots. 
One Blue Cap. 
Two pair Drawers. 
Two Flannel Shirts. 
Two Linen Frocks. 
Two Blankets. 
One Mattress. 
One Glazed Hat. 

Apply at the Recruiting office, Rush street bridge, South Side. 

CAPT. JAMES HYSLOP, Recruiting Officer." 

Deponent took a copy of the Chicago Evening Journal, containing 
said advertisement, to said Hyslop in person, and asked him if the state- 
ments therein made were true. Ilyslop said they were true. 

He has subsec^uently learned from his brother that the above represent- 
ations are false, and the service is that of the New York State Volunteer 
Infantry. 

Stephen W. Wheeler, of the city of Chicago, State of Illinois, deposes 
that he was desirous of entering the Navy of the United States and having 
seen the handbills of one Hyslop representing that he was recruiting for 
the Navy, he enlisted under him with the positive assurance that he was 
enlisting for the Naval service. The following is a copy of one the 
handbills given him at the time of his enlistment : 

" BURNSIDE'S EXPEDITION ! 

Wanted Immediately for the 

MARINE ARTILLERY, 
SEAMEN, Boatmen, Ordinary Seamen, and Riflemen, for the Naval Ex- 
pedition under command of W. A. Howard, now fitting out in New York. 
Pay the same as the Navy, with the addition of a complete outfit and a 

LAND WARRANT, and ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BOUNTY 

at the expiration of the term of service, three years or the war. $27,00 
of the bounty money to be paid in advance on joining the regiment. Also, 

PENSIONS AND PRIZE MONEY ! 

Ijist of Clothinig for nvtar-ine .A.rtillery- : 

1 Long Pea Jacket. 1 Blue Cloth Pea Jacket. 1 pair Duck Trowsers. 



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1 Black Silk Handkerchief. 4 pair Long Stockings. 1 pair Blue Cloth 
Trowsers. 1 pair Blue Satinet Trowsers. 1 pair Boots. 1 pair Shoes. 
1 Blue Cap. 2 pair Drawers. 2 Flannel Shirts. 2 Linen Frocks. 2 
Blankets. 1 Mattress. 1 Glazed Hat. 

Capt. JAMES HYSLOP, Recruiting Officer." 

He also stated that several men whom he had enlisted in the Marine 
Artillery service had sent home several hundred dollars in prize money. 

After reaching New York he became satisfied that these representations 
were false and refused to go any farther. 

Smith Clay, of the city of Chicago, Illinois, deposes that in February, 
A. D. 18G2, he saw a large handbill near the door, on the outside of a 
recruiting office (being the same as described in Stephen W. Wheeler's affi 
davit) calling for recruits for the Navy, and being desirous of entering the 
Navy for artillery service, having belonged to the artillery in the land 
service, he went into the office to make inquiries, and if all was correct, to 
enlist. Among other flattering inducements he was told by Hyslop that 
the gun boats upon which these men were to serve were then building in 
New York, were iron clad, and that some of them were completed and in 
waiting for their crews. He said the Avages would not be less than eighteen 
dollars per month, and that his (Clay's) experience would be the means 
of rapid promotion. He enlisted on these representations and went to 
New York. From thence he was taken to Newborn, North Carolina, and 
after remaining there about two months was partially supplied with cloth- 
ing. He then learned from a lieutenant of the company to which he be- 
longed that the so-called "Marine Artillery" were a regiment of New York 
Infantry Volunteers, and was also shown the commission of the lieutenant, 
which was signed by Governor Morgan of that State. The privates and 
officers received pay at infantry rates. 

Franklin V. Pitnky, of the city of Chicago, Illinois, deposes that he 
had a son about eighteen years old, who desired to enter the Navy of the 
United States ; that during the month of August, a. d. 18G2, he saw in the 
daily papers, and posted in various places in the city, advertisements and 
handbills of James Ilyslop calling for recruits for the " Marine Artil- 
lery." He called upon Ilyslop and told him if he was recruiting for the 
Navy he wished his son to enlist with him. Hyslop told him that the 
service was strictly Naval service, and that the men drew pay, rations, 
and clothing according to the Navy regulations. Hyslop at the time was 
dressed in the uniform of an officer of the Navy. He therefore allowed 
his son to enlist, and went with him and others in charge of Hyslop to New 
York, where, on arriving, Hyslop told him that it would be necessary for 
his son to be sworn again to enable him to obtain a bounty of fifty dollars 



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from the State of New York. Thereupon deponent asked Ilyslop again 
if the service was Naval service, and pressed him to answer if the men 
were not liable to do land service, and remain upon land an indefinite 
length of time, to which Hyslop replied in the affirmative. He then said 
" My son shall enlist for no such liabilities," and would not allow his son 
to remain in charge of the so-called "Marine Artillery," but placed him on 
board the United States Receiving Ship North Carolina, then at the Navy 
Yard at Brooklyn, and enlisted him in the Navy. 

John Tyler, of the City of Chicago, Illinois, deposes that James Hyslop 
claimed to be a captain in what he called the "Marine Artillery" service 
of the United States, and was recruiting in said service. He said that 
Hyslop told him, his son, who had just enlisted, was better off with him 
(Hyslop) than he would be in any other regiment in the United States, 
as he would be paid eighteen dollars per month, and would have no knap- 
sack to carry, and would have his mattress and sleep on board the vessel 

Richard Tyler, of the City of Chicago, Illinois, son of the above 
named John Tyler, deposes, that about the 17th of July a. d, 1862, he 
heard that Hyslop was enlisting men for what he called the " Marine Ar- 
tillery ;" and went to him to learn about the service, and what it was. 
Hyslop told him that the service was on gunboats, and that a gunboat was 
then fitting out in New York, upon which he would be detailed to serve, 
and that the service was strictly marine service, that he would be mus- 
tered in at New York, and would receive twenty-five dollars Government 
bounty, and one month's pay, eighteen dollars, in advance, and two dollars 
premium, and that he would receive eighteen dollars pay per month, and 
would receive prize money, and clothing, as stated in the handbills of said 
James Hyslop, being the same as set forth in the testimony of Stephen 
W. Wheeler. Thereupon deponent enlisted and was taken to New York. 
He received no bounty money or advance pay. He was then taken to 
Newborn, N. C, where, finding the service not such as represented he ap- 
plied to General Foster, then in command at,that place, to learn what ser- 
vice he was in. General Foster informed him that he belonwed to a reo'i- 
ment of New York Infantry. 

Benjamin F. Davison, of the city of Chicago, Illinois deposes that 
his son Benjamin F. Davison, Jr., a minor, wished to enlist in the navy of 
the United States. That on or about the 1st day of August, a. d. 1862, 
he went with his son to the recruiting office of one Hyslop, who said he 
was recruiting men for the " Marine Artillery," that the service was on 
board gunboats, that the men would go on shore only to guard places 
captured, till infantry could be placed in them to hold them. Deponent was 



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then handed a printed handbill, (being the same as set forth in tbe testi- 
mony of Stephen W. ^Vheeler,) which he had seen posted up in various 
places in the city, whereupon he allowed his son to enlist. Ilis son then 
proceeded to New York, with many other recruits, and on the 2Gth day of 
August deponent received by mail, from New York, for his signature, the 
following blank, with the statement that it was necessary to sign it, in 
order that his son might obtain the bounty from the State of New York* 

" CONSENT IN CASE OF MINOK. 

I DO CERTIFY 

that I am the of ; 

that the said is 

years of age ; and do hereby freely give my consknt to his volunteering 
as a soLDiBK in the army of the United States, for the period of 

THREE YEARS. 

Given at 

^ the day of 

Witness, " 

He refused to sign such paper on perceiving that the service was in the 
army, instead of the navy, and is informed that bis son was transported 
to lloanoke Island, without his consent, and without being mustered into 
the United States service. 

Warrack Martin, of the city of Beloit, Wisconsin, deposes, that be 
is the father of George Washington Martin, a minor, who enlisted about 
the 20th of August, a. d. 18G2, in tbe "Marine Artillery," under 
James Hyslop, recruiting officer at Chicago. 

About the 18th of August bis son came to him and stated that be wished 
to enlist in the Marine Artillery, for naval service and wanted his consent, 
and showed bim tbe circular of James Hyslop stating that the service, &c., 
was naval service, and not that of tbe Army. Deponent then went to see 
Hyslop, who told bim that the service was the gunboat or Navy service, 
and that tbe clothing and compensation would be tbe same as the Navy. 
Thereupon be allowed bis son to enlist. 



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At a meeting of citizens of Chicago, held November 15th, 1862, called 
to take action concerning the so-called " Marine Artillery," James Ilyslop 
appeared and asked leave to present to the meeting a copy of his authority 
to recruit for said "Marine Artillery," which was granted, and the fol- 
lowing is a copy of his authority as presented : 

"UNITED STATES ARTILLERY SERVICE. 

Head Quarters, Marine Artillery, ) 
New York, April 29, 1862. > 
Captain James Hyslop : 

Sir : You will proceed at once to Chicago, and 
there, and in that vicinity, recruit and muster into the United States ser- 
vice, for the Marine Artillery regiment, such recruits as shall be found, 
and cause them to be transported to the depot of this regiment ; and you 
will exercise all needful authority for the said end, and as a captain of this 
regiment duly mustered into the United States service, you will act with 
authority as far as the same is needful. You will report in ten days. 
(Signed,) H." A. Manchester, 

Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding. 

(Approved.) E. L. Larned, Captain, 15th Infantry, 

Mustering Officer." 

"Adjutant General's Office, ) 
Wasldngton, April 14, 1862. ) 
Lieutenant-Colonel Manchester, 

Commanding Marine Artillery, New York : 

Colonel : I am instructed to say that authority is granted to com- 
plete the organization of the Marine Artillery (Col. Howard) as ten com- 
panies of infantry. 

I am. Colonel, very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

Geo. D. Ruggles, 
Assistant Adjutant General." 

''Netv Fork, April 22, 1862. 
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the original letter of 
Geo. D. Ruggles, Assistant Adjutant General U. S., signed by him in 
my presence, and now in my keeping. 

H. A. Manchester, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Marine Artillery." 



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A large number of letters from persons in this so-called "Ma- 
rine Artillery," as well as other highly respectable citizens, 
were laid before the committee to the same effect as the testi- 
mony herein given, and the facts recited and set forth in the 
address of the committee to the President. 






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